Call it what you will, Barack Obama will go down in history as the first president to openly endorse full equality for the LGBT community. He even used the term LGBT in the interview he gave on the subject, which, honestly, filled me with joy. I can’t recall any other national… Read full post »

Greetings readers and the reading-curious!

I’ll be in fabulous NYC this week to take part in David Levithan’s NYC Teen Author Festival. For those of you who don’t know David, he’s the genius who delivered Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games to the world.

As part of the ge… Read full post »

Apparently my three part feminist manifesto (or womanifesto as someone cleverly termed it) was a bit too vague for some people. Funny, because I thought I was making myself clear. But apparently the Arizona Senate believes it’s OK to permit doctors to withhold information about a pregnant woman… Read full post »

Recent events have demonstrated that some members of our society have gotten the impression that they can hurl me and my sisters back to the dark ages.

In short: nuh-uh.

I shall elaborate.

1. To religious leaders:

Any organization that consistently threatens women’s freedom, health or privacy will… Read full post »

As anyone who’s been following my tweets knows, I’m in between novels right now. I’ve turned Novel #4 over to my agent. It’s her problem now. So it’s on to Novel #5. Yippee!

In my effort to zero in on a world class heavy weight champion of a story, I’ve been… Read full post »

Rick Santorum may have saved his wife’s life, but he doesn’t want you to know that. Here’s his version of what happened after he and his wife chose to perform fetal surgery on their baby, as told to NPR’s Terry Gross:

Like many medical procedures, there’s a risk of infec

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For those of you who weren’t tuned in on Thursday night, I had the opportunity to chat online with Scott Westerfeld, Robin Wasserman, and David Levithan on a variety of subjects from how we did on the SAT’s to our stupidest book ideas of all. The event was hosted by Figment… Read full post »

Your eleven-year-old daughter can walk into any Walgreen’s or CVS, buy a bottle of Tylenol, take six or eight or ten tablets because she has a really bad headache (and hasn’t yet learned about proper dosage)–and die.

Tylenol is available over the counter. It can kill you.

Plan B ca… Read full post »

There’s a great article by Katherine Ozment in Boston Magazine on how she went from helicopter parent to free-range parent. According to the many experts she queried in her quest to raise happy, self-sufficient kids, all of this attachment, bonding, and constant supervision we’ve been doi… Read full post »

Hi everyone. I’m on Random Buzzers all week. Come on over and ask me some questions! Read full post »

According to this New York Times article, young wannabe bankers are the first to go in the most recent round of financial sector lay-offs.

I know. Boo hoo, right?

I won’t ask anyone to shed a tear for these youngsters who still have plenty of time to rethink the trajectory of… Read full post »

According to Dylan Byers of Politico, who has run the numbers on Nexis, the phrase “income inequality” has appeared in news organizations 500% more often since the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street movement. That, more than anything, is a victory for the protesters. OWS has been, from t… Read full post »

For those of you who don’t know it, Books of Wonder is a brilliant young people’s book store on 18th Street in Manhattan. And this Sunday, it gets even better. I’ll be reading and answering questions along with a very impressive list of authors:

TAMORA PIERCE – Mastiff
JOHN CONNOL… Read full post »

Ok, this freaks even me out.

As many of you already know, the NYPD has been constructing a major surveillance initiative aimed primarily at the financial district but now spreading to mid-town. Footage from surveillance cameras all over the Wall Street area is being processed in a centralized unit us… Read full post »

If you’re in or near New York City this Wednesday evening, come on by and hear me read from Scored, along with the following dazzling writers:

Nora Raleigh Baskin, The Summer Before Boys
Donna Freitas, The Survival Kit
Leanna Renee Hieber, Darker Still
Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages
Bar… Read full post »

Scored is on sale now. It’s already gotten the thumbs up from “the world’s toughest book critics” at Kirkus. But can it win the heart and mind of a two year old?

Find out for yourself: Read full post »

The great deleveraging is upon us. According to some economists, the global slump we’re currently in is a normal and necessary end stage to the bubble economy we floated on for too long. We still have a long way to fall before the deleveraging stops and we can start thinking about… Read full post »

check it:

The clock is ticking. My book goes on sale in less than 2 weeks (though it’s available for pre-order already). To celebrate the occasion, I’m kicking off with a reading at KGB bar in New York City. KGB’s Fantastic Fiction series is a brilliant monthly event featuring some of the hot… Read full post »

One of the great things about writing science fiction, especially near-future science fiction, is that sometimes you get to see your dreams and nightmares come true in real time. I confess I am not above pretending I am actually controlling these things like some kind of evil genius. Luckily I am… Read full post »

Here’s a strange conundrum. Addie is being raised by a mother and father who share equally in her care and feeding (and bathing and diaper changing and tantrum management, etc.). We have little fondness for gender stereotypes and tend to subvert them without even trying. Daddy loves opera. Momm… Read full post »

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about merit. It’s the subject of my new novel and a topic much discussed in the news today. Everybody seems to think the American education system can be improved if we can find a way to reward merit. No Child Left Behind was the previous… Read full post »

There’s still more to come, like free chapters, reader guides, and appearance dates. But for now feel free to just luxuriate in the gorgeosity of my new home. Thanks, Matt Kressel, for spiffing it up! Read full post »

1. Bored of the usual chav stereotypes, wanted to spice things up

2. Nothing good on telly

3. Wanted to protest the austerity measures and general trend toward increased economic inequality by shaking up an overly complacent public wanted new shoes

4. Hoped to give Brits even more reasons to be… Read full post »

Meghan Cox Gurdon is at it again. On June 4th, the Wall Street Journal published her lament on the growing trend of “darkness” in young adult fiction. Not only did she object to the more fanciful forms of darkness, such as is found in dystopian novels like The Hunger Games, she… Read full post »